Harkovast is a traditionally drawn fantasy webcomic which has been hosted on The Duck since the 16th October, 2008.The races of Harkovast are embroiled in a bloody and bitter battle against The Nameless, a force made of literally faceless goons intent on destroying the rest of the world. While the races struggle to overcome deeply entrenched hatred of one another, a lone group set off in search of the Shogun, who may be the only hope they have.

Compelling Voice: The Speaker can make people drown themselves by asking them nicely.

The Chessmaster: Quinn-Tain, and probably all other Wizards — with practically no resources of their own except for knowledge, they resort to employing other races to fight the West, and aren't afraid to make sacrifices or morally questionable alliances.

Faceless Goons: The Nameless have no personality, will, or even basic instincts.

Fantastic Racism: Every race is even a different species and generally mistrust the other races. Sometimes they can have children between them, and the "half-caste" offspring are left with the dilemma of following one side or the other's culture, where they might not be accepted in either.

Fantasy Counterpart Culture: All of the races seen so far, though it's subverted at times — it's usually very easy to tell which of the real world cultures a given nation mimics visually, but their actual beliefs and customs may be warped or mixed with a different culture.

Feet of Clay: A weird case with Shogun, who as far as anyone knows did commit all the heroic deeds he's renown for, but when enlisted by the heroes to help with a relatively unimportant rebellion, he turns out to be all but useless. This didn't go unnoticed by other characters.

Flaming Sword: The Darsai summon energy weapons created by the power of their faith. According to the info page, the color is different depending on which god they worship in the Thanic pantheon. The inquisitors who worship Thane's wife Hellava get red ones, and the heretics who worship her mother Ashal get grey ones. The Knights of Thane get bluish-purple ones.

Older Than They Look: Scatterpod, due to the nature of Ano-Chee magic used to resurrect her, turned up physically younger than her adult son-and turned her marriage into a May-December Romance. Her husband's a doddering old fool and she doesn't look a day over 20.

Our Zombies Are Different: Black River. In control of himself, but clearly rotten. Also said to be cursed in some way; everyone forgets him as soon as they loose sight of him (unless they're special in some way, such as Scatterpod or the Wizard).

"I'm not here to make friends. I show up to kill people...and look good while I do it."

Rebellious Spirit: Junlocks are so free-spirited and strong willed that they can resist the brutal methods Tolpish use to break their slaves. Feerix was able to resist long enough that his master considers it better to just leave him to die of thirst than put up with him-at least, until he unloads him on the Wizard.

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